Starting this upcoming Monday, February 17, Lync Conference 2014 goes into full swing through the 20th. Experts from all over the world will be presenting, demoing, answering questions and having a good time representing the world of Lync. The Lync community as a whole are just a bunch of geeks who love what they do […]
Posts Tagged ‘Exchange’
Office 365; Beyond email, Innovating for the Future (infographic)
This interesting Office 365 infograpic was recently shared with me. It contains some pretty impressive numbers 1 billion people on the planet are using Microsoft Word 2 out of 3 information workers are using SharePoint 90 out of 100 Fortune 100 companies are using Lync One in four of Microsoft’s Enterprise customers – Microsoft’s largest […]
Unexpected DNS SRV Error with Lync Server and Exchange Online UM
Configuring Lync Server 2010/2013 for integration with Exchange Online for UM is a relatively straight forward process. You need a Lync Edge server, federation enabled, proper external DNS SRV records, the appropriate Hosted Voicemail Policy configuration applied to the on-premise Lync environment, and the Exchange Online UM dial plan configured appropriately. Despite having all that […]
Exchange 2013 Site Mailboxes coexisting with Exchange 2010
With the introduction of Exchange 2013 and SharePoint 2013, a new feature called Site Mailboxes was introduced, which allows for team collaboration to bring documents and emails together in Outlook 2013 and SharePoint 2013. Recently I’ve been working with a customer who had a specific business need for Site Mailboxes as part of a SharePoint 2013 project […]
Attention Nonprofits: Microsoft is donating Office 365 to you
If you qualify Microsoft will donate Office 365 to your organization. Don’t you think you could benefit from Exchange and SharePoint as well as Office applications? Wouldn’t it be great if you could simplify IT administration and work towards your goals as a nonprofit? Well I believe that is what Microsoft is trying to do […]
ZDNet Highlights Perficient’s Cloud and Healthcare Expertise
It was exciting to read Heather Clancy‘s post on ZDNet.com this morning, ‘Perficient’s Cloud Prescription for Healthcare Companies‘ highlighting Perficient’s Cloud & Healthcare expertise. From Heather’s post, which can be read here [Perficient] was named in July as both the software developer’s U.S. Partner of the Year and also as [Microsoft’s] top provider for delivering healthcare […]
Lync Server 2013 – Annoying LS DATA MCU 41029 Error
Starting with Lync Server 2010 and now with Lync Server 2013, Certificate management was much improved over previous OCS platforms with the ability to itemize certificates across the environment. More specifically, on the Lync Server Front ends you can now apply up to 3 unique certificates to each server. A description is provided for each certificate below: […]
CRM Success Leveraging Microsoft Office 365
We recently had one of our long-time Perficient customers go-live with Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Online (which is part of the Office 365 platform) with great success and ease. After utilizing SharePoint and Exchange online for years, they realized they had reach the limits of SharePoint in managing their day-to-day business and needed more in order […]
Using Fiddler to troubleshoot Lync Mobile Client
Troubleshooting and reading the logs on the Lync Mobile client is in my opinion, very cumbersome. I find myself staring at the logs trying to decipher the cryptic messages, reformatting the text in notepad, scrolling to left and right repeatedly,… well, you get the idea, it simply isn’t any fun. I was recently challenged with […]
Lync Server 2013 SQL Mirroring “Gotcha” – Must Read
For quite some time now, I’ve been working on a global design/deployment where there are multiple pools located throughout the globe. Throughout this design, I’ve seen the flexibility of Lync Server 2013 at its very finest and gained a much better appreciation for how Lync Server was designed by the Product Team at Microsoft. Due […]
Using System Center Automation to Manage Office 365
Manage Office 365 with Microsoft System Center Service Manager, Orchestrator, PowerShell or Custom GUI. Working with office 365 projects one of the things I come across frequently is what are some of the ways to manage Office 365 from an on premise location. Up to now there has been a very limited tool set to […]
Lync Server 2013 Interop – Debunking the Myths
It is quite obvious the big market players are competing to own the “Unified Communications” space. I put quotes around Unified Communications because that definition seems to vary depending on who you talk to. Big name players such as Microsoft, Cisco, Avaya, Siemens, Polycom, the list goes on, have taken strides to create their own […]